American actor Chris Pine is famous for his role as James T. Kirk in
the 2009 film “Star Trek,” from which he netted a Boston
Society of Film Critics Award, a ShoWest Award and several award
nominations, and its sequel, “Star Trek Into Darkness”
(2013). He has also acted in other films such as “The Princess
Diaries 2: Royal Engagement” (2004), “Just My Luck”
(2006), “Smokin' Aces” (2006), “Bottle Shock”
(2008), “Unstoppable” (2010) and “This Means
War” (2012).

Pine has been romantically linked to Olivia Munn (together in
2009), Audrina Patridge (rumored to have dated in early 2009) and model
Dominique Piek (dated from mid-2012 to April 2013). Pine, who is of
Welsh and Jewish descent, was named one of Variety magazine's Top Ten
Actors to watch in 2008 and reached No. 27 on the Entertainment Weekly
list of “30 Under 30” (also in 2008). He enjoys skeet
shooting.

Piney

Childhood and Family:

Chris Pine was born Christopher Whitelaw Pine on August 26, 1980, in
Los Angeles, California, to showbiz parents Robert Pine, who played
Sgt. Joseph Getraer in “ChiPS,” and Gwynne Gilford, the
star of the film “Masters of the Universe” (1987). His
grandmother was 1940s film siren, Anne Gwynne, who had starred in
“Ride 'Em Cowboy” (1942) and “House of
Frankenstein” (1944). He has an older sister named Katherine Pine
(born September 24, 1972). He is known with the nicknames Peenč,
Pinewood and Piney.

Chris attended high school at Oakwood School and went on to receive a
bachelor's degree in literature from University of California,
Berkeley, Berkeley, California. During his junior year at Berkeley, he
studied abroad at the University of Leeds for a year before returning
home to finish his degree. After graduation, Chris studied acting at
the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and later with
Howard Fine and Ivana Chubbuck.

This Means War

Career:

Chris Pine made his professional acting debut in an episode of the NBC
medical drama “ER” called “A Thousand Cranes”
(2003). It was followed by guest spots in “The Guardian”
(2003), “CSI: Miami” (2003) and “American
Dreams” (2004) and a role in the short film “Why
Germany?” (2004), which was helmed and written by Gabriel
Peters-Lazaro. He made his feature film acting debut as Nicholas
Devereaux, the love interest of Mia (played by Anne Hathaway) in the
2004 sequel “The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement.”

In 2005, Pine landed a starring role in the independent film
“Confession,” which was released directly to video, and
made a guest appearance as Young Sam Hoviak in an episode of “Six
Feet Under.” The same year, he appeared in a short film called
“The Bulls.” Pine made his TV movie debut in
“Surrender, Dorothy” (2006), opposite Diane Keaton, Tom
Everett Scott and Alexa Davalos. The year also saw Pine in three
different films. He was cast as Lindsay Lohan's boyfriend in the
romantic comedy “Just My Luck” and worked with Ryan
Reynolds, Ray Liotta and Joseph Ruskin in the Joe Carnahan harsh
ensemble drama “Smokin' Aces.” In addition, he made his
leading debut as Danny in the comedy “Blind Dating,”
directed by James Keach. His co-stars in the latter film included Eddie
Kaye Thomas, Anjali Jay, Jane Seymour and Jayma Mays.

Pine returned in 2008 with a starring role opposite Hal B. Klein and
Alan Rickman in “Bottle Shock,” a comedy/drama film
directed and co-written by Randall Miller, and a part in “An
Inconvenient Head,” a short film directed and written by and
starring William Savage.

Pine's big break arrived when he was chosen by director J. J.
Abrams to play the young Captain James T. Kirk on the feature reboot of
“Star Trek” (2009). The film was a box office success and
was nominated for several awards, including four Academy Awards at the
82nd Academy Awards. As for Pine, he won a 2009 Boston Society of Film
Critics (BSFC) for Best Ensemble Cast and received several
nominations like the Broadcast Film Critics Association Critics Choice
Award nomination for Best Acting Ensemble, MTV Movie Award nominations
for Best Breakout Star and Biggest Badass Star, Teen Choice Award
nominations for Choice Movie Fresh Face Male and Choice Movie Rumble
and a Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Award nomination for
Best Ensemble. He also picked up a 2009 ShoWest in the category of Male
Star of Tomorrow and was nominated for a 2010 People's Choice Award for
Favorite Breakout Movie Actor.

Next up for Pine, he was cast as cast opposite Lou Taylor Pucci, Piper
Perabo and Emily VanCamp in in the thriller movie
“Carriers” (2009), which was directed by Alex Pastor,
teamed up with Shawn Christian, John Hawkes and Bre Blair for the
ensemble drama film “Small Town Saturday Night” (2010),
co-starred with Denzel Washington and Rosario Dawson in Tony Scott's
Academy Award nominating thriller movie “Unstoppable”
(2010) and provided the voice of Dave in the animated film
“Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey”
(2010).

In 2012, Pine co-starred as FDR Foster, a CIA agent who falls for the
same girl (played by Reese Witherspoon) as his best friend (played by
Tom Hardy) in the action comedy “This Means War,” directed
by McG. The role brought him a Teen Choice nomination for Choice Movie
Actor: Romance. The same year, he appeared in Lee Toland Krieger's
comedy/drama film “Celeste & Jesse Forever,”
starring Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg and Elijah Wood, and co-starred
with Elizabeth Banks, Olivia Wilde, Jon Favreau and Michelle Pfeiffer
in the drama film “People Like Us,” which marked the
directorial debut of Alex Kurtzman. He also provided the voice of Jack
Frost in the 3D computer-animated fantasy-adventure film “Rise of
the Guardians.”

Recently, Pine reprised his role as James T. Kirk in “Star Trek
Into Darkness,” which had its premier at Sidney, Australia on
April 23, 2013 before being released in the United States and Canada on
May 16, 2013.

“At this point he isn't really the captain of the Enterprise. So
the journey of this film is to see the non-captain in a position of
nominal power, but psychologically and emotionally going through some
sort of age-existential crisis, where he's riddled with self-doubt and
confusion and fears that he may not be the best man for the job. That
was really exciting and kind of took the majority of my thought and
time space.” Chris Pine (on portraying the young Captain Kirk in
“Star Trek Into Darkness”)

Pine will play the title role on the upcoming action/thriller movie
“Jack Ryan,” based on the character Jack Ryan created by
Tom Clancy. The film is set to be released on December 25, 2013.
The actor also will play in the forthcoming films “Into the
Woods,” “Mantivities” (2014) and “Z for
Zachariah.”

Awards:

Boston Society of Film Critics (BSFC): Best Ensemble Cast, “Star Trek,” 2009
ShoWest: Male Star of Tomorrow, 2009
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